Blog 10: Online Teaching Tools

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- 10 Favourite Online Teaching Tools Used by Educators this Year

Article Written By: Larry Ferlazzo

Due to the pandemic, teachers and students were put into an environment where they were forced to be online more than they ever have before. Apart from Google and Zoom, there were many notable online resources that were great for the classroom and promoted student engagement: 

  • Quizzizz: Free online learning game site that has already-made games about every topic. 

  • Baamboozle: Free online gaming site. Students can select a question to answer and talk among themselves to determine the correct answer. 

  • Quill: Free site where students can learn grammar in a non-painful way. 

  • Math Learning Center: Virtual manipulative website 

  • FlipGrid: Short videos of students' responses. 

  • Peardeck: Responses from all students are immediately visible. Uses various tools (polls, drawing tools for matching, multiple choice, free response, fill in the blank). Students' names are anonymous, but teachers can see who's who. 
Resource: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-10-favorite-online-teaching-tools-used-by-educators-this-year/2020/11

Reflection: 

I have only heard of FlipGrid from these resources. Some of the resources that I used in my grade 7/8 classroom were: 
  • Scratch (Block Coding)
  • CodeGuppy (Javascript Coding) 
  • Blooket 
  • Kahoot!
  • Mathigon 
  • Desmos 
  • Wordle Infinite 
  • StoryboardThat
  • ScholasticScope 
I'm glad to have learned about some new resources in these last two blog posts. I will be able to revisit these online resources this upcoming school year. I believe that there are many strategies and resources discussed that enhance student engagement in the classroom. I look forward to trying these practices out! 

Question for you: What online tools did you use throughout the last few years? I'd be happy to hear about which tools or strategies worked best for you to keep students engaged.  




Comments

  1. Nalini S.August 14, 2022 at 6:58 PM

    Hi Giulia,
    At my university, we used Zoom and Microsoft Teams. In terms of greater capabilities and functionality, I found that Teams was more engaging and simpler to use (for example screen sharing and live PowerPoint sharing were much easier for me). I also found that a lot of instructors used Kahoot for informal testing of student knowledge to monitor how they were retaining information in their new virtual learning platform, which I found to be a fun alternative to simple quizzes.
    Really great to see how many platforms you used in your class! I'm sure that it was really engaging for your students.

    Thanks for sharing!
    Nalini

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